Movies: Time Life Television Productions

  • 1981
    The Bunker

    The Bunker (1981)

    The Bunker

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    Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city....

    The Bunker
  • 1981
    Othello

    Othello (1981)

    Othello

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    Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. V...

    Othello
  • 1981
    The Princess and the Cabbie

    The Princess and the Cabbie (1981)

    The Princess and the Cabbie

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    A young woman works to overcome her dyslexia with the help of a good-hearted cab driver....

    The Princess and the Cabbie
  • 1980
    The Merchant of Venice

    The Merchant of Venice (1980)

    The Merchant of Venice

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    A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (s...

    The Merchant of Venice
  • 1980
    The Tempest

    The Tempest (1980)

    The Tempest

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    Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanted island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a sorm to bring his brother - the usurper of his dukedom - along with his royal entourage. to ...

    The Tempest
  • 1979
    Henry VIII

    Henry VIII (1979)

    Henry VIII

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    Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates wi...

    Henry VIII
  • 1978
    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet (1978)

    Romeo and Juliet

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    Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their l...

    Romeo and Juliet
  • 1981
    The Winter's Tale

    The Winter's Tale (1981)

    The Winter's Tale

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    The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. W...

    The Winter's Tale
  • 1984
    The Tragedy of Coriolanus

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1984)

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus

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    A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city....

    The Tragedy of Coriolanus
  • 1982
    The Wall

    The Wall (1982)

    The Wall

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    A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson,...

    The Wall
  • 1984
    The Life and Death of King John

    The Life and Death of King John (1984)

    The Life and Death of King John

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    The reign of England's King John is threatened by Philip of France who demands that John's nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to plactate the French, but there are others who seek disputre his authority....

    The Life and Death of King John
  • 1980
    Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night (1980)

    Twelfth Night

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    Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want t...

    Twelfth Night
  • 1980
    Hamlet

    Hamlet (1980)

    Hamlet

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    Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge....

    Hamlet
  • 1980
    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew (1980)

    The Taming of the Shrew

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    Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate, so all the su...

    The Taming of the Shrew
  • 1978
    Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II

    Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II (1978)

    Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II

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    A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" by public school authorities, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. Even the child's own mother, who i...

    Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II
  • 1981
    Crisis at Central High

    Crisis at Central High (1981)

    Crisis at Central High

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    The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Huckaby, one of the teachers and girls' vice principal....

    Crisis at Central High
  • 1980
    Mom, the Wolfman and Me

    Mom, the Wolfman and Me (1980)

    Mom, the Wolfman and Me

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    Concerned that her feminist mom Deborah is going to stay single, Jenny Bergman plays matchmaker. She arranges a date between mom and unemployed Theo Marker, Irish Wolfhound owner, doing everything to get keep them together....

    Mom, the Wolfman and Me
  • 1981
    Timon of Athens

    Timon of Athens (1981)

    Timon of Athens

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    Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit....

    Timon of Athens
  • 1983
    The Comedy of Errors

    The Comedy of Errors (1983)

    The Comedy of Errors

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    Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders un...

    The Comedy of Errors
  • 1984
    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

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    When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves us through...

    Pericles, Prince of Tyre